Segregation and Leadership in Groups

Abstract

In societies made up of several groups, at what point do the cultural identities of one group become transformed by interactions with another? When do groups self-segregate, and what does it take for them to integrate? Weinberg tackles these questions by examining the effect of overall size on sorting – that is, how big the overall society must get, and what the proportions of the groups must be, before groups start to self-segregate racially and ethnically. Weinberg uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on segregation within schools to reach his findings.